She said she gets around 15 calls a week, which is three times more than she used to receive. “It’s hard enough to find an apartment or a house with the housing shortage as it is … let alone if you have a cat,” Adams said. Joanne Adams, vice president of a small rehabilitation house for cats in Bath called A Paw in the Door, said she’s been getting more calls from people who are losing their homes in the past few months. Roth said the shelter gets around three or four surrendered pets every day. The Westbrook shelter, which doesn’t turn pets away, had taken in 510 surrenders this year as of the end of June, a 31 percent increase from the 390 surrenders during the first half of last year. Pet-friendly housing is especially challenging to find in the state’s tight apartment market, said Jeana Roth, spokesperson for the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland.
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